Battle of Bouzincourt

The Battle of Bouzincourt (9 July 1918) was a battle of World War I that occurred when the Allied armies of France and the United States and the army of the German Empire launched failed attacks against each other's positions on the Somme front in the Picardy region of northern France. Two French regiments (one regular regiment, one chasseurs regiment) and two American regiments (one US Army regiment and one US Marine Corps regiment) launched attacks against the German lines, but their attacks petered out as they failed to gain a foothold in the heavily-defended German trenches. The German counterattacks also failed, as the Allies picked off the Germans as they flooded across no man's land. The battle was a draw, as the lines remained unchanged.